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Human activity recognition (HAR) using wearable sensors has advanced through various machine learning paradigms, each with inherent trade-offs between performance and labeling requirements. While fully supervised techniques achieve high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Taoran Sheng , Manfred Huber

Objects are entities we act upon, where the functionality of an object is determined by how we interact with it. In this work we propose a Dual Attention Network model which reasons about human-object interactions. The dual-attentional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Tete Xiao , Quanfu Fan , Dan Gutfreund , Mathew Monfort , Aude Oliva , Bolei Zhou

This paper proposes deep convolutional network models that utilize local and global context to make human activity label predictions in still images, achieving state-of-the-art performance on two recent datasets with hundreds of labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Arun Mallya , Svetlana Lazebnik

Neural attention, especially the self-attention made popular by the Transformer, has become the workhorse of state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) models. Very recent work suggests that the self-attention in the Transformer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Zhengxuan Wu , Thanh-Son Nguyen , Desmond C. Ong

Human activity recognition (HAR) with wearables is promising research that can be widely adopted in many smart healthcare applications. In recent years, the deep learning-based HAR models have achieved impressive recognition performance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Songpengcheng Xia , Lei Chu , Ling Pei , Wenxian Yu , Robert C. Qiu

We introduce SensorLLM, a two-stage framework that enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform human activity recognition (HAR) from sensor time-series data. Despite their strong reasoning and generalization capabilities, LLMs remain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zechen Li , Shohreh Deldari , Linyao Chen , Hao Xue , Flora D. Salim

Object-based attention is a key component of the visual system, relevant for perception, learning, and memory. Neurons tuned to features of attended objects tend to be more active than those associated with non-attended objects. There is a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-09 Jordan Lei , Ari S. Benjamin , Konrad P. Kording

Predictive process monitoring aims to support the execution of a process during runtime with various predictions about the further evolution of a process instance. In the last years a plethora of deep learning architectures have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Martin Käppel , Lars Ackermann , Stefan Jablonski , Simon Härtl

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable progress in visual understanding. This impressive leap raises a compelling question: how can language models, initially trained solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Jing Bi , Junjia Guo , Yunlong Tang , Lianggong Bruce Wen , Zhang Liu , Chenliang Xu

Attention mechanisms represent a fundamental paradigm shift in neural network architectures, enabling models to selectively focus on relevant portions of input sequences through learned weighting functions. This monograph provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Hasi Hays

Attention has long been proposed by psychologists as important for effectively dealing with the enormous sensory stimulus available in the neocortex. Inspired by the visual attention models in computational neuroscience and the need of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Yichuan Tang , Nitish Srivastava , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has been an active area of research, with applications ranging from healthcare to smart environments. The recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have opened new possibilities to leverage their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Md Shakhrul Iman Siam , Ishtiaque Ahmed Showmik , Guanqun Song , Ting Zhu

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) based on motion sensors has drawn a lot of attention over the last few years, since perceiving the human status enables context-aware applications to adapt their services on users' needs. However, motion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Panagiotis Kasnesis , Charalampos Z. Patrikakis , Iakovos S. Venieris

Multimodal wearable sensor data classification plays an important role in ubiquitous computing and has a wide range of applications in scenarios from healthcare to entertainment. However, most existing work in this field employs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Xiang Zhang , Lina Yao , Chaoran Huang , Sen Wang , Mingkui Tan , Guodong Long , Can Wang

In this paper, we propose to incorporate convolutional neural networks with a multi-context attention mechanism into an end-to-end framework for human pose estimation. We adopt stacked hourglass networks to generate attention maps from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Xiao Chu , Wei Yang , Wanli Ouyang , Cheng Ma , Alan L. Yuille , Xiaogang Wang

Recently, the soft attention mechanism, which was originally proposed in language processing, has been applied in computer vision tasks like image captioning. This paper presents improvements to the soft attention model by combining a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Shiyang Yan , Jeremy S. Smith , Wenjin Lu , Bailing Zhang

Transformer-based architectures have become the prevailing backbone of large language models. However, the quadratic time and memory complexity of self-attention remains a fundamental obstacle to efficient long-context modeling. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yutao Sun , Zhenyu Li , Yike Zhang , Tengyu Pan , Bowen Dong , Yuyi Guo , Jianyong Wang

The problem of human activity recognition is central for understanding and predicting the human behavior, in particular in a prospective of assistive services to humans, such as health monitoring, well being, security, etc. There is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-30 Faicel Chamroukhi , Samer Mohammed , Dorra Trabelsi , Latifa Oukhellou , Yacine Amirat

Accurate short-term power load forecasting is important to effectively manage, optimize, and ensure the robustness of modern power systems. This paper performs an empirical evaluation of a traditional statistical model and deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Suhasnadh Reddy Veluru , Sai Teja Erukude , Viswa Chaitanya Marella

Large language models are able to exploit in-context learning to access external knowledge beyond their training data through retrieval-augmentation. While promising, its inner workings remain unclear. In this work, we shed light on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Patrick Kahardipraja , Reduan Achtibat , Thomas Wiegand , Wojciech Samek , Sebastian Lapuschkin